Arnaud Bertrand
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Extraordinary intervention by Jeffrey Sachs at the Athens Democracy Forum! Here are a few extracts 🧵 Here he argues that what matters is a country's unique governance culture: cl...
George Yeo, one of the most consummate statesmen in Asia (Singapore Cabinet member for 21 years!) is always a mandatory listen. Here he explains the worrying dynamic between the U...
Probably the most consequential aspect of the US’s new move to curtail China’s development is the restriction towards “US persons” working in the Chinese semiconductor industry. I...
What a surprise! 😏 The US measures that aim to, at the same time, decouple the semiconductor sector from China and "boost US semiconductor production" is absolutely destroying the...
Bill Clinton, of all people (!), said something smart about this 🔽in a 2003 Yale speech. He said that if the US was always going to be number 1, it could keep behaving unilaterall...
That's interesting. Most people assume that the Mao era was an economic disaster for China. And for sure he was MUCH less successful in that regard than his successors. But actual...
Napoleon said "to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy". It's actually pretty eerie how much countries' foreign policy culture is influenced by their geography...
One word: Huawei (and the other dozens of Chinese companies the US bans from competing). Special mention to Secretary of Commerce Raimondo's call and efforts to "slow China's inno...
This interview of @cowestpro's Jaq James is an absolute must-watch! How can one not feel humbled by Jaq's immense courage and integrity? An Australian woman so outraged by the pr...
The next step in liberal individualism: abolishing the family. Plot twist: look at marriage rates and number of individuals per household in the US and notice it's already largely...
As a self-defeating move, the FBI's China Initiative takes the cake. It painted a target on the back of all scientists of Chinese descent, many of which are America's best and bri...
Bertrand Russel's advice to future generations is timeless: "Love is wise, hatred is foolish" As a rule of thumb, if any politician seeks to foment division and hatred instead of...